Boehler admits he's not sure if he'll be able to beat inoperable stage 3 esophageal cancer, but even if he doesn't, he still wants to see Thor one last time.

"I’d like to see him before I die," he told Pittsburgh's Action News on Feb. 18. "If you could do that, or (if) somebody knows where he’s at or still alive ... they have to, somebody knows something."

Earlier that day, Pittsburgh police arrested the woman accused of stealing Thor from Boehler's Leister Street yard in late November while he was undergoing chemotherapy. Gisele Paris was taken to the Allegheny County Jail after police said she fought with officers as they tried to take her into custody, but they've yet to track down Thor. (Anyone with information is asked to call Zone 3 police at 412-488-8425)

"Maybe they liked him a lot or they wanted to sell him," Boehler theorized as to why the dog was taken.

(UPDATE: Scroll down for an update on Gisele Paris' preliminary hearing in Municipal Court.)

After being diagnosed with cancer in July, he knew he could no longer take care of the dog and had already made plans for him to live with a new owner.

"I have a close friend who paid for his surgery in June to remove a tumor on his neck. She was supposed to take him permanently three days after Thanksgiving," said Boehler, who has been staying with his brother in Cabot, Butler County.

But that all changed when he came home Thanksgiving night after undergoing treatment at UPMC Passavant and couldn't find Thor.

"When I came home, he didn’t come up to the fence and I knew something was wrong," said Boehler. "Right behind his dog house someone had taken a pair of wire clippers and cut the fence all the way up, and then took him out and walked all the way between the two properties."

He reported Thor missing the next day. That same day, Paris brought a husky to the Animal Rescue League and said she found it as a stray, according to a criminal complaint. Records showed Paris went back to the shelter Dec. 11 and claimed the dog.

Nearly a month later, on Jan. 9, Paris brought the dog to be examined at Penn Animal Hospital and the staff recognized it as Boehler's, the complaint said. When questioned about her ownership of the dog, Paris "became very irate, uncooperative and left the hospital without having the dog treated" after a doctor determined surgery was needed, according to the complaint. Thor had undergone surgery at the same clinic last year.

A staff member told Paris to "do the right thing and call the owner," but she screamed, "This dog was in deplorable condition. You don't know. I saved it. I rescued it. I took it out of a bad situation," and then stormed out, the complaint said.

When officers went to Paris' Woessner Street home Feb. 13, she admitted to having the dog, but said it was at a veterinary clinic having surgery, though she declined to say which one, and accused police of having a "vendetta" against her, the complaint said.

She also told the officers that she didn't steal the dog and that they couldn't prove that "because no one saw anything," the complaint said.

When officers went back to Paris' home to serve an arrest warrant Feb. 18, they found her walking in the street with another dog, the complaint said. When an officer told her to put her hands behind her back, she yelled "no" and started screaming as the officer tried to handcuff her, police said.

Paris threw herself in the snow and yelled "help, call 911," as two officers attempted to handcuff her, the complaint said. During the struggle, she kicked one in the chest and another several times in the leg, police said.

Paris was arrested and taken to the Allegheny County Jail. The dog she was walking will be kept at Animal Friends until she is released.----------------------------------------------------

UPDATE: A preliminary hearing for Paris on Tuesday was continued to April 24. As she left Municipal Court, she declined to comment to Pittsburgh's Action News and made a peace sign with her left hand.

Criminal dockets show that Paris is facing two felony counts of aggravated assault and misdemeanor counts of theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and resisting arrest. She remains free on $5,000 bond.

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